The Revisionist Scrabble book series by Francis Gurtowski

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Revisionist Scrabble in a nutshell:

Play one page at a time, 378 words per page.

No need for a Scrabble dictionary.

Cross words off the page as you board them.

Favorites et, qi, er, ne, and en are not repeatable.

Stay on the same page
game after game
with fewer and fewer untapped words remaining.

Play double-wide racks of tiles
                       

This is not my first attempt to revise Scrabble.

Over the course of one hundred,
automated, two-perfect-player,
games of classic Scrabble,
only 2086 of the 6111 words played
were four-letters or longer.

98 percent of the 83,392 eligible
four- to fifteen-letter words
were NOT PLAYED AT ALL.

Not even once!

Fully two thirds of the words
that were actually played,
by my pair of brute-force avatars,
were two's or three's.

101 of Joe Edley's two-letter words
were played at least once each.

100 percent of them.

704 of Joe Edley's
1015 three-letter words
were played at least once each.

Some 69 percent of them.

What is worse,
excluding bonus points awarded for bingos,
29,086 of the total 66,695 points scored,
some 44 percent of them,
were scored by the teeny, tiny
(and typically innocuous)
two's and three's.

In A Quant's Critique of Scrabble,
I wrote:


There is something not quite right
about Scrabble, inasmuch as
the most often played words are
et, qi, er, ne, and en.

So start each game by rolling
an everyday dice cube.

If you roll a 1,
play two-letter words and up,
as usual.

If you roll a 2,
play three-letter words and up.

If you roll a 3,
play four-letter words and up.

If you roll a 4,
play five-letter words and up.

If you roll a 5,
play six-letter words and up.

If you roll a 6,
play seven-letter words and up.

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02
021 022
03
031 032
04
041 042
05
051 052
06
061 062
07
071 072
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081 082
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091 092
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101 102
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111 112
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121 122
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131 132
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141 142
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151 152
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161 162
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171 172
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181 182
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191 192
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